Emacs 21.3 crash/HTML editing

Emacs 21.3 crash/HTML editing

[Robert McDonald]

Emacs 21.3 under Windows 2000 is generally quite reliable, but I find it 
crashes from time to time when I am editing html files using 
html-helper-mode (3.0.4jolly). I will try to figure out next time what 
might be happening, but I wondered first if there is a known problem or 
if I'm using an  inappropriate version of html-helper-mode.el. I am 
always editing a file over the network (via a windows domain login) when 
this happens and I am connecting via a mapped drive. I'm not good at 
debugging emacs crashes because it almost never happened with versions 
prior to 21.3.

Any thoughts appreciated. Thanks!

Bob

Emacs 21.3 crash/HTML editing

[Gian Uberto Lauri]

>>>>> "RM" == Robert McDonald <r-mcdonald@GETRIDOFTHIS.northwestern.edu> writes:

RM> Emacs 21.3 under Windows 2000 is generally quite reliable, but I find it 
RM> crashes from time to time when I am editing html files using 
RM> html-helper-mode (3.0.4jolly). I will try to figure out next time what 
RM> might be happening, but I wondered first if there is a known problem

None AFAIK. What kind of crash ?

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Re: Emacs 21.3 crash/HTML editing

[Robert McDonald]

Gian Uberto Lauri wrote:

> 
> None AFAIK. What kind of crash ?
> 

I don't remember the exact message. A dialog box pops up, says that 
emacs has done something it shouldn't, and the box has abort, retry, and 
ignore buttons, which makes me think the problem is related to the fact 
that I'm accessing the file over the network. But it doesn't look like a 
Windows dialog.

Since there's nothing you know about I will try to pin this down. Are 
there any log files I should be looking for when this happens? (Again, 
this is under Windows 2000.)

Thanks!

Bob

Re: Emacs 21.3 crash/HTML editing

[Stefan Monnier]

> Emacs 21.3 under Windows 2000 is generally quite reliable, but I find it
> crashes from time to time when I am editing html files using
> html-helper-mode (3.0.4jolly). I will try to figure out next time what might
> be happening, but I wondered first if there is a known problem or if I'm
> using an  inappropriate version of html-helper-mode.el. I am always editing
> a file over the network (via a windows domain login) when this happens and
> I am connecting via a mapped drive. I'm not good at debugging emacs crashes
> because it almost never happened with versions prior to 21.3.

No matter how badly written an elisp package is, it shouldn't
cause Emacs to crash.  Check the etc/DEBUG file for indications
about what you should do.
If you don't have access to a debugger on your machine, the only
useful info is a precise recipe to reproduce the problem.


        Stefan

Re: Emacs 21.3 crash/HTML editing

[Robert McDonald]

Stefan Monnier wrote:
> 
> No matter how badly written an elisp package is, it shouldn't
> cause Emacs to crash.  Check the etc/DEBUG file for indications
> about what you should do.

Thanks very much for the pointer to etc/DEBUG. I have cygwin with gdb 
installed so when I get some time I'll try to figure out how to proceed.

Bob

Re: Emacs 21.3 crash/HTML editing

[Gian Uberto Lauri]

>>>>> "SM" == Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

SM> No matter how badly written an elisp package is

You can take html-helper-mode as a 0 (like 0 Kelvin), anything is over :)

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